This paper introduces the concept of affective polarization – the tendency for an individual to distrust someone not because of their specific opinion, but because of their political party – into an opinion dynamics model and shows that incorporating affective polarization into the opinion dynamics model affects the level of ide-ological polarization present among agents in the network.
We study opinion dynamics in a social network consisting of two groups. Agents update their opinions by conforming to members of their own group while rejecting the views of the opposing group (affective polarization), and by listening to a media outlet that may provide biased information. We characterize the long-ru...
Sebastiano Della Lena, L. Merlino, Y. Zenou· The Review of Economic Studi...· 0 citations
It is found that emotional polarization becomes more persistent after 2020 and is more strongly associated with higher levels of technological simplification and emotion-oriented interaction dynamics, consistent with the view that major platforms are linked to changes in public-opinion dynamics in platform-mediated env...
Chang-Rong Lu, Dan Qin, Jiali Huang et al.· PLoS ONE· 0 citations
This study investigates the relationship between algorithm-driven social media content and the growing phenomenon of political polarization. With social media platforms increasingly relying on personalized algorithms to curate user feeds, concerns have emerged about the creation of ideological echo chambers and the rei...
Entisar Al-Obaidi, M. Mallek, Fakhri Elfaki· International Journal of Sci...· 1 citation
The results demonstrate that grounding Mistral-7B within empirically cloned interaction networks produces a realistic simulation framework capable of reproducing complex social dynamics.
Omran Berjawi, G. Fenza, Rida Khatoun et al.· 0 citations
Affective polarization is defined by intense negative emotions between partisan groups and has seen a rapid increase worldwide, posing risks to democratic institutions and crisis management. This study examines the mediating role of political sensitivity in the relationship between social media use and affective polari...
N. Namrata, L. Moolathingal· Psikoloji Çalışmaları / Stud...· 0 citations
This article analyses the methodological approaches used in research on affective polarization. Affective polarization is defined as positive feelings toward one’s own political group and negative emotions toward political opponents. Research on this phenomenon in political science typically relies on quantitative surv...
Andrius Vyšniauskas· Parliamentary Studies· 0 citations
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